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Internet Explorer Starts on Boot

Shiny-p

Posted 19 July 2005 - 06:36 PM

Shiny-p

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Hello everyone,

I got a virus a week ago which hijacked my Internet Explorer browser.

The symptoms were;

1 - Internet Explorer started up every time my PC started
2 - Internet Explorer always defaulted back to the about:blank page, and always defaulted to this page as my home page.
3 - Various other browser sessions started without my consent.

I ran all the various PC clean up software and this seemed to remove the virus.

Symptoms 2 and 3 have gone, but symptom 1 persists - IE always starts whenever I turn on my PC . The program is not listed in my startup folder.